From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MJmpg-00075h-2R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:09:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 950DCE01C9; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:09:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-relay2.uniserve.ca (smtp-relay2h.uniserve.ca [216.113.194.206]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D74DE01C9 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:09:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-200.62.99.216.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([216.99.62.200] helo=ca.inter.net) by smtp-relay2.uniserve.ca with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MJmpb-0001DY-Tg for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:09:29 -0700 Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:09:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:09:27 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] To be mesa or not to be mesa... Message-ID: <20090625110927.GA4752@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20090625025151.GB5959@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090625025151.GB5959@solfire> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Sender-Info: purslow@ca.inter.net X-Scanner: OK. Scanned. X-Uniserve-Spam-Score: 0.1 1 (/) X-Uniserve-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (0.1 points) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RDNS_DYNAMIC Delivered to trusted network by host with dynamic-looking rDNS X-Archives-Salt: a3f9855e-6c2b-4c5d-ab42-9cb1d2698453 X-Archives-Hash: 4cb777006285681659f3fab70b966e57 090625 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > I am using an nvidia graphics card GeForce (7600 GT (rev a2)) > with the nvidia drivers. Do I need mesa to be installed ? > I am heavily using OpenGL with Blender. On my machine with an 'Asus EN8500GT Nvidia 512 MB DDR2 800' card root:502 root> eix ^mesa$ ... Installed versions: 7.3-r1([2009-04-11 04:50:13])(motif nptl -debug -doc -kernel_FreeBSD -pic -video_cards_intel -video_cards_mach64 -video_cards_mga -video_cards_none -video_cards_r128 -video_cards_radeon -video_cards_s3virge -video_cards_savage -video_cards_sis -video_cards_sunffb -video_cards_tdfx -video_cards_trident -video_cards_via -xcb) ... root:503 root> equery d mesa [ Searching for packages depending on mesa... ] virtual/glu-7.0 (media-libs/mesa) virtual/opengl-7.0 (media-libs/mesa) x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r6 (!minimal? >=media-libs/mesa-7.1) x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.29 (media-libs/mesa) -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca